Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re-indenting the configure script (please test)

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quick query: Is glib required for building tethereal
and the other text-based commands?  I realize that,
without X loaded, ethereal itself will never compile
and I'm not expecting it to (disabled it in the config).

As for editing the configure script vs. configure.in,
uhm, oops... I should probably start there.  In any
case, a critique of my auto-indentation script would
still be welcome.


Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:20:15AM -0800, Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) wrote:
>
> > I know that it has to do with insisting on testing the glib
> > configureation (it'S *NOT THERE!), but trying to figure out
> > the logic of the script is almost impossible
>
>
> OK, three things:
> 1) You're a braver man than me, trying to understand the
>    configure script.
> 2) Being lazy, I only try to understand the configure.in
>    file, from which configure is automagically generated
>    by running the autoconf command.
> 3) without having either glib or glib2 installed, Ethereal
>    will neither build nor run: Some of the core data types
>    Ethereal uses come from this lib. You do *not* need
>    gtk (unless you want the graphical frontend), but glib(2)
>    is required.

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